Freedom

Freedom is a cut down free version of JetStream Roamer. It is designed to work with JetStream Publisher by allowing you to distribute published .nwd files to your clients and other non-CAD users for free and easy viewing of your models. Simply publish the .nwd file, give them Freedom, and let them walk around your model.

Note

Freedom supports all .nwd files from NavisWorks v3 onwards.

It is available as a stand-alone viewer, or as an ActiveX control for insertion into web pages. Once installed, Freedom looks like this:

The available functionality includes all of the navigation modes; the view all, perspective and orthographic modes; collision detection, gravity, auto crouch and third person modes; display of hyperlinks; and restoring viewpoints and animation playback.

The buttons on the Freedom interface work in the same way as the JetStream buttons:

Open

Simply opens the standard WindowsOpen dialog for you to choose an .nwd file to open into Freedom.
Walk

Puts Freedom into Walk navigation mode.
Look Around

Puts Freedom into Look Around navigation mode.
Zoom

Puts Freedom into Zoom navigation mode.
Zoom to Box

Puts Freedom into Zoom to Box navigation mode.
Pan

Puts Freedom into Pan navigation mode.
Orbit

Puts Freedom into Orbit navigation mode.
Examine

Puts Freedom into Examine navigation mode.
Fly

Puts Freedom into Fly navigation mode.
Turntable

Puts Freedom into Turntable navigation mode.
View All

Zooms to extents so that the whole model is visible in the Freedom window.
Perspective

Puts the Freedom view into perspective viewing mode. This is mutually exclusive with orthographic mode.
Orthographic

Puts the Freedom view into orthographic viewing mode. This is mutually exclusive with perspective mode.
Collision Detection

Toggles collision detection on/off.
Gravity

Toggles gravity on/off.
Auto Crouch

Toggles automatic crouching on/off.
Third Person

Toggles the third person view on/off.
Hyperlinks

Toggles the display of hyperlinks on/off.
Stop

Stops the current animation playback.
Pause

Pauses the current animation playback
Play

Plays the currently selected animation.
Viewpoints

This drop down shows all the viewpoints and animations that have been set up and published with the .nwd file. Click on one of the viewpoints from the drop down to recall that viewpoint into the Freedom window. Select an animation from the drop down and use the play, pause and stop buttons to control its playback.
About

Shows the About box, providing version details and offers a link to the NavisWorks web site.

Note

Once installed, Freedom can be copied and run, without additional installation, on other machines running Windows 2000 or later. For this to work, the contents of the Freedom folder simply need to be copied to a new location, perhaps a CD or a network location, which other people can then have access to. An NWD file could be included to make it very simple to view the model. People would simply need to double-click on the Freedom executable and open the accompanying model file from that location.

Freedom is installed to:

C:\'Program Files\'Common Files\'NavisWorks 5\'DX\'

The entire contents of this folder will need to be copied to the new location.